Picture projector and viewer



April2o,194s. H, ROGER 2,439,987

PICTURE PROJECTOR AND VIEWER Filed Dec. 1l, 1946' 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 ATTORNEY April 20, 1948.4 H. ROGER 2,439,987

PICTURE PROJECTOR AND VIEWER Filed nec. 11, 194e s sheets-'sheet 2 v lNi/Ezvrox. Hsunv Rosen,

A'ri'oansv BY f I Aw April 20, 1948.

H. ROGER PICTURE PROJECTOR AND VIEWER Filed Dec. 1l, 1946 Y3 Sheets-Sheet 3 INVENTOR. HENRY ROGER,

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ATTORNEY maar Apri. zo, 1948. A2,439,987

Application December 11, 1946, Serial No. 715,405

This invention relates to acombined projecting and viewing apparatus and has particular reference to a device of this character wherewith pictures upon transparent slides may be projected in one direction to a distant screen, or,

by the manipulation of a single element in the y projector, the picture upon the slide may be reilected rearwardly to a viewing screen upon the projector. Y

One object of this invention is the provision of sembled and which will be etlicient in operation with minimum wear to the parts.

The invention possesses other objects and features of advantage, some of which, with the foregoing will be set forth in the following description and in the claims wherein parts will be identiiled by specific names for convenience, but they are intended to be as generic in their application to similar parts las the art will permit. In the accompanyingdrawings there has been illusan apparatus oi the character described wherein trated the best embodiment of the invention the projecting mechanism is housed in a lower known to me, but such embodiment is to be recasing and the viewing screen is carried upon an garded a8 typical only of many possible embodiupper housing or hood which is slideable upon ments, and the invention is not to be limited and may be removed from the said lower casing. thereto.

Another object of this invention contemplates The novel features considered characteristic of the inclusion therein of an arcuate slide holder my invention are set forth with particularity in which by its use permits of readily interchanging the. appended claims. The invention itself, howthe slides, ever, both as to its organization and its method Another objeoi'l of this invention ie the means 20 oi.' operation, together with additional objects and employed therein for removing the viewing poradvantages thereof, will best be understood from tion or hood of the machine from the lower housthe f0110W1n8 deSCllPOn 0f 8 Specific embodiing ment when read in connection with the accom- A further object of this invention resides in the Dnying drawings. in Whichi means provided for automatically cutting oir the Figure 1 1B a longitudinal sectional elevation light source while the slide holder is being turned through the center 0f the DIOGCOI approximately from one slide projecting position to a subse- 810118 the line I--I of Figure 2. quent position. Figure 2 is a top or plan view of the lower com- Anotherobject of this invention resides in the Prtment 0I' 1101181118 0f the projector having the inclusion therein of a ring shaped slide holder 80 upper @01121011 01' hOOd 0f the device removed and adapted to intermittent rotation through the 1S taken DDlOXimately along the line 2-2 of lower housing and automatic means for control- Flurd A1- ling the intermittent rotation of the said ring Fllllre 3 is a cross sectional elevation taken shaped slide holder or carrier. 310118 the line 3-3 of Figures 1 and 2 and looking A further @biet-t of this invention 1s the are5 inthe direction indicated by the arrows.

rangement therein whereby the various projecting elements in the lower housing may be readily removed from the said lower housing or easily reached for cleansing or replacement.

A still further object oi. this invention is the inclusion therein of a pivotally mounted reflector element which is adapted to direct the light rays against another reecting element which in Figure 4 is an elevational view of a partin detail which will be hereinafter described.

Figure 5 is a sectional view of same taken on line 5 5 of Figure 4.

Figure 6 is an elevational view of a detail.

Figure rI is a sectional elevation of same taken along the line 'l-'I of Figure 6. y

Figure 8 is a iragmentary plan view of a detail.

Figure 9 is a sectional elevation taken along the turn de'ects the light rays upon a viewing screen 45 une 9 9 of Figures 1 and 2 looking in the drec ai.; the rear end of the device or swinging the sam tion indicated by the arrows and shows a top or pivotally mounted reflector element out of line to covering plate substituted for the aforementioned permit a straight line projection of the image to upper hou'sing or nomi a distant screen or wall surface.

A still further object of this invention is the .provision of an organization in which the constituent elements are so arranged structurally and functionally as to assure improved results with materials and members which may be manufactured at reasonable cost, may be easily as- Figure 10 is a `fragmentary elevational side view of Figure 9, and

Figure 11 is a sectional elevational view showing another form of slide holder or carrier.

Referring in detail to the parts, Il designates a lower housing member suitably mounted upon a base l2 and comprising ailoor i3, side .through the openings ture slides 51 and 58,

`3 I5 and having an open top. The the said side walls I4 and I5 are projecting iianges I6 and upper housing or walls I4 and upper edges of formed with laterally I1 respectively over which an hood I8 is adapted to slide. The said upper housing or hood I8 comprises a base member I9 to the under side of which there are attached strips 20 and 2l forming channels in which the said flanges I6 and I1 engage. When the said hood I8 is removed from the lower housing II the open top of same may be closed by attaching a cover plate 22 (Figure 9) having grooves 23 which slideably engage over the said anges I6 and I1.

The said base I9 of the hood I8 extends laterally over and beyond the side walls I4 and I5 of the said lower housing II and are formed with upwardly extending side walls 24 and a top 25 having a partially arcuate formation and extending rearwardly to form an open end 26. A channel 21 is formed upon the base I9 and is adapted to receive and hold the lower end of a viewer screen 28 of ground glass or other suitable semi-transparent material. The upper end 29 of the said viewer screen 28 is held against a ledge formation 30 formed upon the under side of the top 25 of the said hood I8 and a clip 3| is employed to hold and lock the said viewer screen in place. Inside the hood Iii-under the front arcuate shaped top there is attached, at the proper angle, a frame 32 which supports a. reflecting element 33. flecting element 33 is an opening 34 which is formed in the base I9 of the said hood I8.

Arranged to swing in line with the said opening 34v and pivotally 'connected to the side Walls I4 and I5 of the said lower housing at 35, is a frame 36 adapted to carry a reflector element 31 and which is adapted to assume a predetermined angle with respect to the horizontal and is held thereat by means of stops 38 upon each of the said side walls I4 and I5. The said frame 36 and its attached reflector element 31 may be swung upwardly about its pivotal connection 35 to a horizontal position under the said opening 34 and may beheld in this position by means of its frictional contact with springs 39 upon the said side walls.

In line with the aforesaid reflector element 31 and slightly distant therefrom is a supporting frame 40 which is secured to the side walls I4 and I5 of the lower housing II. The said frame 4u carries a bushing 4I secured upon and through same and slideably movable in the said bushing 4I is a sleeve 42 formed with a depending lug 43 which engages through a slot'44 in the said bushing. A cylindrical adaptor 45 is mounted and iixed within the said sleeve 42 and within the adaptor there is mounted a lens carrying cylinder 46. Slideable movement is given to the lens carrying cylinder 46, the adaptor 45 and sleeve 42 -by means of a yoke shaped lever 41 which is pivotally attached at 48 to wings 49 formed upon the said supporting frame 48. A pin 58, xed upon the said yoke lever, engages through a .slot 52 formed in the floor I3 of .the said lower housing II and has a pivotal connection at 53 with an adjustment rod 54 Vwhich extends under the said floor I3 to the lringer hold 55 on the outside rear end of the said base I2.

Engaging through openings in the side walls I4 and I5 of the said lower housing is lan arcuate slide holder 56 which is adapted to move and which carries two picone of which is positioned Directly belowhthis rein line for projection while the other is held outside of the said lower casing, from which point the slide may be readily removed and another slide inserted. 'Ihe said arcuate slide holder 56 may be moved back and forth through the said openings in the side walls I4 and I5 to bringv the slide 51 in line for projection while the slide 58 is carried out to the position shown by dot-dash lines in Figure 9. End plates 59 and 60 may be attached by screws or otherwise, tothe outer ends of the said and act as stop means to properly position the slide holder. Finger holds 6I and 62 may be provided upon the saidend plates 59 and 68.

Condenser lens 83 and 54 are arranged where shown and disposed therebetween is a frame which carries a heat absorbing element 88 of any suitable transparent material (Figures 4 and 5).

To the rear of to the iioor I3 of the lower housing, a socket 81 carrying a light bulb 68 and directly behind same there is mounted a concave reflector unit 88 which is carried in a frame 18 in turn adjustably mounted upon the floor I8. Screws 1I which engage through slots 12 upon said frame 18 (Figure 6) secure the said frame to a cross bar 13 upon the floor I3 of said lower housing.

An L shaped cover 14 is provided at the rear end of the said lower housing and the end of same rests in a groove 15 formed upon the said .iioor I3.

In Figure 11 there shaped slide holder tated by a motor and which has an automatic control mechanism to start and stop the revolution of the said slide holder and at the same time successively light and extinguish the iight bulb during the start and stop intervals.

When employing this form of slide holder the device, that is the said lower housing unit II, must be mounted upon a stand 1-8' and the slide holder must be split or divided as at 11 into two sections 18 and 18, the joining to .be accomplished by suitable connecting means upon the inside of the slide holder sections. The said circular slide holder is adapted to engage through openisshown a circular or ring ings in the said side walls I4 and I5 of the said lower housing and is carried upon two rollers 88 and 8I. The roller 88 is geared to a motor 82 to give rotation to .the said circular slide holder.

The mechanism controlling the intermittent movement of the said circular slide holder and the co-ordinating light bulb is actuated by two geared synchronous motors, the drive motor 82, already mentioned. and which operates at intervals and the cam actuating switch control motor 83 which operates continually while the projector is in use. The said motor '88, through gear connections, rotates a cam 84 against which a spring actuated cam follower 85 is adapted to contact and successively close and open an electric circuit to the motor 82. A second spring cam follower 88 is adapted to engage against the inner rim of the said circular slide holder and drops, at intervals measured by the distance between slides, into indentations 81 upon the rim to close an electric circuit at 88 and supply current to the light bulb 88 and at interva1s,.syn chronous with the spacing. oi the slides inthe slide holder, leave the indentations 81 to open the circuit to the light bulb to extinguish same.

The illustration (Figure 11) shows the `slide holder or carrier II-18 at rest and the projeeted tion lamp or light bulb 88 on or illumina arcuate slide holder y the said lens 64 there is secured which is adapted to be ro- 4 This position may be considered as the beginning of a cycle. The motor 83 is in operation with the cam follower 85 engaging the recessed portion of the cam 84, no electrical contact being made. However, the cam 84, being geared to the motor 83, rotates slowly and gradually forces the cam follower 85 out to close an electric circuit at the contact point 89 to bring into operation the drive motor 82. The slide holder then rotates in the direction indicated by the arrows X and forces the cam follower 86 out of the indentation 81 to open the circuit at 88 thereby cutting off the light .but at the same time making a contact at 90 to continue an electrical current supply to the motor 82 which continues its rotation until the cam follower 8B drops into the next following indentation 81 to break the electrical contact at 90 thereby stopping the motor 82. Electrical contact is again established `at 88 to light the bulb 68. The cam 84 is timed to open the circuit at 89 before the circuit is broken at 98. s l

The springs carrying the cam followers 85 and 86 and the contact points 88, 89 and 80 are insulated from any metallic or electrical conducting material upon the projector or supporting frame but are electrically connected in the various circuits shown in the diagram imposed upon Figure II. 'I'he c am followers are formed of insulator blocks. The cycle of operation just described is repeated for every slide interval of stop and motion while the projector is in operation and are regulated and timed by the movement of the cam follower 86 into and out of each successive indentation 81.

Suitable standard electrical conductor connections (not shown) may be provided to supply electric current to the operating parts of the projector.

The various units,l namely the condenser lens 63 and 84, the heat absorbing element 65, and the supporting frame 40 are shown riveted to the side walls I4 and l5 of the said lower housing, but in Figure 8 a method is shown for removably holding these said units in place. A groove or runway 9 I is formed by riveting, welding or otherwise attaching two angular bars 92 to the side walls of the said lower housing l I. By this method of attachment the various units may be removed and easily replaced.

Operation To use the apparatus for rear view projection the projector is set as shown in Figure 1, that is, the reflector element 31 rests at an angle upon the stops 38. The slide holder 58 may be set as shown in Figure 9 to bring the slide 58 in line with the light rays from the light bulb 68 (a second slide being held outside of the projector). The electric current being turned on, the light bulb rays will pass through the condenser lens 63 and lid, the heat absorbing element 86, the slide 58 and the focusing lens 46 to the reflector element 31, from which the light rays are reflected to the reflector 33 and then reflected to the rear viewing screen 28. y

When a straight line projection to a distant screen is desired, the frame 36 lcarrying the reilector element 31 is moved upwardly about its pivotal connection 35 to the position shown by dot-dash line in Figure I` where it is held by its frictional contact with the side springs 39.

If so desired, the hood I8 carrying the refiector element 33 and viewing screen 28, may be removed by sliding same along the flanges I8 and I1 and a top or covering plate 22 (Figures 9 and 10) 'may be substituted. With the projector so set, the picture upon the slide 88 will be 'projected in a straight line through the open end 9|, of the said lower housing, to a distant screen or wall surface.

Themechanical operation and control of the circular slide holder has already been described. While a split ring slide holder has been shown and described itis obvious that a one section ring slide holder may be employed by making suitable provision on the projector housing and supporting frame to permit the attachment of same.

I claim:

1. A projector comprising a lower housing unit consisting of a light unit therein, condenser lens arranged before the said light unit, a slide holder movable through the side walls and arranged before the said condensers, a lens cylinder containing a focusing lens adjustably mounted in said lower housing unit and arranged before the said slide holder, an adjustable reflector element pivotally mounted in said lower housing unit and placed before the said lens cylinder and a hood slidably attached to the top of the said lower housing unit and consisting of base, side walls and' top, the said base being formed with an opening arranged directly above the aforesaid pivotally mounted adjustable reflector element, a stationary reflector element inl said hood and arranged at an angle directly above said opening inbase of hood and a viewing screen mounted at the rear open end of said hood, the aforesaid pivotally mounted adjustable reflectorelement in said lowerhousing, and the stationary reflector element fixed in the said hood coacting to reflect the light rays from the said light unit upwardly and backwardly to the said viewing screen in said hood, vspring means coacting with said pivotally mounted adjustable reflector element to hold same in raised inactive position to permit light rays from said light unit to be projected in a straight line to a distant screen, and means for supplying current to i1- luminate the said light bulb.

2. 'I'he projector as set forth in claim 1 wherein the slide holder is arcuate in form and carries two slides, one portion of the said arcuate slide holder being held within the said lower housing to fix one slidein line for projection, t

while the remaining portion of the said arcuate slide holder carries the second slide and projects outside of said lower housing to permit accessibility to the slide therein.

3. The projector as set forth in` claim 1 including therein a transparent `heat absorbing element arranged between the said condenser lens to prevent any damage to the slide from the heat of the said light bulb.

4. The projector as set forth in claim 1 wherein a ring shaped slide holder is employed, automatic means to intermittently rotate the said ring shaped slide holder, and automatically controlled means for intermittently cutting off the light from the said light bulb.

5. The projector as set forth in claim 1 including vertically arranged grooves uponv the side walls of said lower housing which are adapted to removably hold the various elements in the said lower housing unit.

6. A combined straight line and rear view projector comprising a lower housing unit open along itsy top and at its front end and an upper housing unit slidably mounted over the top of 7 said lower housing and open at its rear end, the said lower housing containing therein a light bulb near its rear end and successively arranged within the said lower housing in line with light rays from the said light bulb, condensers, slide and adjustable slide holder, focusing lens and an adjustable reector element adapted to reect light rays from the said light bulb upwardly and through an opening in the said upl per housing, the said slidably mounted upper housing comprising a base having the said light passage opening, a reector element fixed above said opening in said base of upper housing, and a viewing screen at its rear open end, the said adjustable reflector element in said lower housing coordinating with the xed reflector element in the said upper housing to project, by reilection, the light rays from the said light bulb in said lower housing to the viewing screen in upper housing. a concentrating reflector behind the said light bulb and means for supplying electric current to the said lightbulb.

7. The projector as set forth in claim 6 including an arcuate slide holder carrying two slides and movable through the side walls of the lower housing unit and adapted to position one slide within the lower housing unit in line for projecting an image upon a slide in said slide holder and hold a part of the arcuate slide holder outside of said lower housing unit to permit 8 the ready removal and interchange of a slide in that portion of said arcuate slide holder.

8. The projector as set forth in claim 6 including an adjustment rod connected to the focusing lens and operable from the rear of the projector. 4

9. The projector as lset forth in claim 6 wherein' the said upper housing containing the reector element and viewing screen is removed and a cover plate substituted therefore to make the projector adaptable for straight line forward projection only.

HENRY ROGER.

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